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Old 05-15-2018, 11:18 AM #46
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Zero failures in over 20k miles and two trips across the USA. I will begin the process of cutting my cover towers to build a new upper eye mount.
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Update a few years on...
It's been nearly 4 years

I installed these coilovers on a 2wd vehicle and I ultimately went through and painstakingly thought through how I would go about designing this mount to get all of the travel back out of the factory suspension.

Problem: I lost a few inches of up-travel due to stuffing an 8" travel coilover in the factory location.

Solution: Design a new mount to go in the place of the existing tower to get that travel back.

How:Prayers and CAD.

Commitment:
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Photo dump
Problem and starting to get to the solution

Chop, chop, chop
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Fitting and measuring
All of the work for figuring out the material thickness, width/length/etc. of the tower will be done in CAD, but I was getting the clearance for the coilover done with grid board.
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4Runner May Update
Here's a photo for reference after I had chopped the fenders and attempted to fit the 35's without tubbing.... Laughing at that now!
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Here's some fun on the computer
This is sort of the progression after doing the finite element analysis for the mount. I sort of know what I'm doing, but I'm only just scratching the surface.
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Update: CNC done on the prototype and some refinement
Got the CNC to cut the parts out, tacked together, and fitted to check the dimensions. This is a very crude version and you can see that I took lots of material away afterwards and added some cleaner lines.
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Update: New parts cut
Got the final part cut out, and tacked. I couldn't wait any longer so, I just got after it and started burning.
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Putting it back together
Re-assembly time with all the new shiny parts
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You can see that fish plates were added to overlap the weld between the factory tower and the new one.
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